Paper-towel cabinet



March 6, 1928.

N. BOIVIN PAPER TOWEL CABINET.

Filed April 4. 1927 Inventor Aniorngy Patented Mar. 6,

PATENT, OFFICE.

NAPOLEON BOIVIN, OF BERLIN, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

IAPER-TOWEL CABINET.

Application filed April 4,

The present invention relates generally to dispensing cabinets and particularly those designed for dispensing paper towels and the like and has for its principal object to provide a structure having a spring catch 1 or the like for holding the cabinet closed and means for releasing said spring catch or the like which is accessible only after the paper towels have all been dispensed from the cabinet.

Another" important object of the invention resides in the provision of a structure of this nature which is simple, inexpensive to manufacture, thoroughly efiicient and re-- liable in use, and otherwise well. adapted to the purpose for which it is designed.

Vith the above and numerous other objects in view as will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in certain novel features of construction, and in the combination and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the drawing:

Figure 1 is a front elevation of the cabinet embodying the features of my invention,

Figure 2 Figure 3 is a fragmentary transverse section taken substantially on the line 3-3 of Figure 2.

Referring to the drawing in detail it will be seen that the cabinet comprises a front wall 5. side walls 6, a top 7, and an inclined bottom section 8. A rear wall 9 is adapted to be fastened to the support in any suitable manner and has a top flange 9 and an inclined bottom section 10 adapted.

to terminate in spaced relationto the section 8 so as to provide opening 11 through which a portion of the bottom paper towel is adapted to extend. The bottoms of the side walls 6 are pivoted at 12 to the extremity of the section 10 so that the major portion of the cabinet may be swung down to be filled with the paper towels. A member 14 is fixed to the top 7 and extends downwardly therefrom to be engaged by a spring catch 15 on the wall 9. A chain or the like 16 is engaged with the spring catch so that by pulling the chain the spring catch may be released from the member portions so that is a vertical sect-ion therethrough,

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the cabinet may be opened. On the end of the chain 16 there is a weight element 17 adapted to lie on top of the supply of paper towels in the cabinet. It will be seen that there is no way in which the cabinet may be opened until all of the paper towels have been removed therefrom and the weight element will extend down through the opening 11 at which time it may be pulled and the cabinet readily opened and filled with a. new supply of papers with the weight element 17 on top thereof. I

It is thought that the construction, advantages, utility, and operation of this invention willnow be quite apparent to those skilled in this art without a more detailed description thereof. The present embodiment of the invention has been disclosed in detail merely by way-of example since in actual practice it attains the'features of advantage enumerated as desirable in the statement'of the invention and the above descript-ion. a

It is apparent that changes in the de tails of construction, and the combination and arrangement of parts may be resorted to without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention as hereinafter claimed or sacrificing any of its advantages.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is i 1. A cabinetcomprising a pair of hingedly connected sections having an opening in the bottom, means interiorly of the sections for holding the sections closed, a chain en gaged with saidmeans, a weight element on said chain adapted to project through the NAPOLEON 'BOIVIN. 

